From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Could you make vconfig less stupid? Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 20:24:01 +0200 Message-ID: <20081006202401.14f03be2@speedy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:59415 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751449AbYJFSYH (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:24:07 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: vconfig prints bogus message, then autoloads the vlan module. It is still living in 2.4 time warp. # vconfig add dummy0 1 WARNING: Could not open /proc/net/vlan/config. Maybe you need to load the 8021q module, or maybe you are not using PROCFS?? Added VLAN with VID == 1 to IF -:dummy0:- Other nuisance: # vconfig --version Expecting argc to be 3-5, inclusive. Was: 2 ... 1) users expect version 2) users don't expect argc related crap messages